Ask an ALAA Agent – What the spec?

Monday, April 3, 2017

By:

Danielle Binks

Speculative fiction is literature without limits – a catch-all term broadly encompassing stories that feature fantastical, supernatural, or futuristic elements. And it’s popular. Very popular. Among some of the most popular books in the history of publishing have, in fact, fallen under the speculative-fiction term; from ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘The Lord of the Rings’, works of CS Lewis and Ursula K Le Guin, to name a few.